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title: "Collected Poems, 1948-1984"
brand: "derek walcott"
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# Collected Poems, 1948-1984

**Brand:** derek walcott
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- **What is this?** Collected Poems, 1948-1984 by derek walcott
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Collected Poems, 1948-1984

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    gift of language
  

*by O***E on Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2019*

Lush and exquisite poetry

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A poetry collection to cherish
  

*by Y***A on Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2018*

I love Walcott's poetry. He's a master with words who transports me to new depths of perception. Inspiring, touching, profound. I keep this one nearby to read a poem randomly and reflect on it all day.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Sand and the sound of the waves.
  

*by J***O on Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2010*

When you read Derek Walcott you cannot help but be dragged into his world. It is not a world where you sit on the beach, drink a beer and listen to Jimmy Buffett all day.Instead, it is a world where life is hard. You live in a place where nature is indeed beautiful but at times unforgiving. The sun cooks you, the sand chafes you and the water drains you.In this book of collected poems, Walcott has some of his more famous poems along with relatively unknown ones. Some are like the Iliad, some are strange and need deep introspection. Either way, they all touch some part of your psyche. It is obvious that he has won so many prizes for his work, least of all the Nobel Prize. It is accessible and deep all at the same time.Good poets guide us in the story, we take what we can and allow ourselves to open up and understand the beauty of the work. Walcott is a master of the tour.-----------------------------------Excerpt from "Egypt, Tobago"There is a shattered palmon this fierce shore,its plumes the rusting helm-et of a dead warrior.Numb Antony, in the torporstretching her inertsex near him like a sleeping cat,knows his heart is the real desert.Over the dunesof her heaving,to his heart's drummingfades the mirage of the legions,across love-tousled sheets,the triremes fading.Ar the carved door of her templea fly wrings its message.He brushes a damp hairaway from an earas perfect as a sleeping child's.He stares, inert, the fallen column.He lies like a copper palmtree at three in the afternoonby a hot seaand a river, in Egypt, TobagoHer salt marsh dries in the heatwhere he founderedwithout armor.He exchanged an empire for her beads of sweat,the uproar of arenas,the changing surfof senators, forthis silent ceiling over silent sand -this grizzled bear, whose fur,moulting, is silvered -for this quick fox with hersweet stench. By sleep dismembered,his headis in Egypt, his feetin Rome, his groin a deserttrench with its dead soldier.-----------------------------------Highly recommended.Thank you for reading my review.

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